Her performance left council members blinking. “The reason I say that all of Thrive’s budget is tailored to is because it’s very difficult to say is the percentage of our population that is seriously mentally ill,” concluded Mrs.
(And don’t forget the Department of Correction: A huge but ultimately unknowable percentage of New York’s mentally ill reside on Rikers Island and in other lock-ups.)īut in the end, McCray insisted Tuesday, all the spending is to the benefit of every New Yorker. More telling was that neither Herman nor McCray could even tell the council how many people are on Thrive’s payrolls - though surely there are many.Īnd just as surely, jobs are the point - both municipal positions and employment with the numberless, anonymous, unaccountable and usually politically connected not-for-profit agencies that live off city dollars.įor, clearly, the objective can’t be services.Ĭouncil members learned Tuesday that only $30 million of Thrive’s $250 million annual budget - an anemic 12 percent - is spent on the seriously mentally ill, with the remainder of that enormously expensive burden shunted off to the city’s more traditional social services agencies. Turns out that ThriveNYC director Herman had no more firm a grasp on detail than did McCray - telling the hearing that her agency employs 400 benchmarks to measure effectiveness - but that “all of those metrics are being refined.” With a quarter of a billion dollars (!!) to divvy up every year, one easily could get an arm broken when the boodling begins.Īnyway, for details the mayoral missus deferred to one Susan Herman, who “does the day-to-day management and makes the decisions.” One can only imagine what a mad scramble those meetings are. “I’m the founder, I provide the strategic support, I hold meetings on behavioral health and I amplify things to the public.” The council redeemed itself only slightly Tuesday, asking McCray - too politely for the circumstances - to explain herself, and then settling for a non-answer answer for the ages: Such as, how did it happen that Thrive burned through more $565 million over four-plus years to no appreciable good effect with nobody noticing?Ĭertainly not the City Council, a legislative body comprising 50 stuffed cabbages and a speaker who wants to be mayor - a fellow who stood by incuriously as the city’s streets and subways slowly filled with insane people, many of them threatening and dangerous.
The first spouse went before the City Council Tuesday - tripping spectacularly over her own tongue while removing any doubt that her billion-dollar husbandly indulgence, ThriveNYC, amounts to an epic public policy swindle gussied up as a mental health program. Mayor Bill de Blasio likes to say that there’s plenty of money in New York City, but that it’s in the wrong hands. MHRA 'THRIVE', All Acronyms, 23 February 2023, Bluebook All Acronyms, THRIVE (Feb. THRIVE, All Acronyms, viewed February 23, 2023, MLA All Acronyms. Retrieved February 23, 2023, from Chicago All Acronyms. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Quote Copy APA All Acronyms.
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